Portland ME Window Replacement provides professional window screens in Portland, ME for residential and commercial properties across Greater Portland and the Casco Bay towns. Screens have quietly become a different product in Maine over the last decade, and the reason is heat pumps. Efficiency Maine has put an enormous number of them into houses in this state, and a house that cools with a heat pump is a house where the windows stop being opened in July.
That sounds harmless enough. What it means in practice is that screens go five or six years without being handled at all. The spline dries and shrinks, the mesh sags out of tension, and the first warm evening somebody does want a window open the screen is a bag rather than a plane. Then the whole set gets condemned at once and somebody quotes new windows.
None of that requires new windows, and this is comfortably the cheapest page on the site. A sagging screen in a sound frame is a rescreen: old spline out, fresh mesh laid over the frame, rolled into the channel under even tension, trimmed back. It is about an hour of work for a handful of frames.
Mesh choice is the only real decision to make. Standard fiberglass mesh is fine inland and it is cheap. Aluminum holds tension better and does not stretch, which matters on a tall opening. Bronze costs several times either of them and is the one that survives salt air on an exposed Harpswell or Phippsburg shorefront without going chalky.
There is also a heavier pet-resistant mesh, and a solar mesh that cuts a meaningful share of the summer heat gain on a west elevation. Solar mesh darkens the view noticeably from inside, so it belongs on a bathroom, a stairwell or a garage rather than on the room where you actually sit and look out.
Half screens against full screens is a genuine question on Portland's tall double-hungs. A half screen covers the lower sash only, which is all most people ever open, costs less and leaves the upper glass clear. A full screen lets you ventilate from the top of the opening, which is exactly what you want in a bedroom in August.
The frames themselves are usually fine and people throw them away far too readily. Aluminum screen frames from the 1970s are still perfectly serviceable, and unless a corner key has actually broken there is no reason at all to buy new ones. Bring us a stack and we will tell you honestly which need frames and which only need mesh.
This is also the only work on this entire site that will never approach the $3,000 statutory threshold, and the one place where a knock at the door is genuinely harmless. Nobody is running a canvassing operation to sell you rescreening.
Our licensed and insured team brings the right materials and equipment to every job — a like-for-like sash swap that never disturbs the rough opening, full-frame replacement taken back to the framing at the jamb, an insulated glass unit reglazed into the sash already on the building, warm-edge spacer stock named by type on the purchase order, a certified whole-unit label left on the pane until sign-off, low-expansion foam packed into the shim gap in place of rope insulation — and backs the work with a written workmanship warranty. We serve Portland and nearby communities including South Portland, Biddeford, Scarborough, Brunswick.
What We Handle
Everything our window screens in Portland covers
One crew, one point of contact, and the full range of window screens work in Portland, ME. If it is on this list we do it in house rather than handing it to a subcontractor:
- window screens
- screen repair
- rescreening
- fiberglass screen mesh
- aluminum screen mesh
- bronze screen mesh
- half screens
- full screens
- pet resistant screen
- solar screen
- screen frame replacement
- spline replacement
- storm window screens
- custom screens
- screen door
- screen tension
Not sure which one describes your situation? Describe it in plain words and we will sort it out — or browse the rest of our Portland services.
Materials, equipment and how we do window screens
The difference between window screens that lasts and window screens that gets redone in three years is almost always preparation and materials, not the finish you see on day one. We work with a like-for-like sash swap that never disturbs the rough opening, full-frame replacement taken back to the framing at the jamb, an insulated glass unit reglazed into the sash already on the building, warm-edge spacer stock named by type on the purchase order, spec them to the job instead of to the invoice, and write the material grades into the free estimate so you know exactly what you are buying.
Every Portland job runs the same way: site walk and measurements, written scope and fixed price, protection of the surrounding area, then the work itself with a daily clean-up. Years of window work in Greater Portland and the Casco Bay towns means we have already met whatever your property is going to throw at us — awkward access, older construction, an HOA with opinions.
Where we do window screens outside Portland
Portland ME Window Replacement covers Portland and the surrounding communities of Greater Portland and the Casco Bay towns. Crews run out to the same nearby cities every week, so an out-of-town job does not mean an out-of-town price.
- Window Screens in South Portland, ME — Cumberland County, population 26,498
- Window Screens in Biddeford, ME — York County, population 22,552
- Window Screens in Scarborough, ME — Cumberland County, population 22,135
- Window Screens in Brunswick, ME — Cumberland County, population 21,756
- Window Screens in Westbrook, ME — Cumberland County, population 20,400
- Window Screens in Saco, ME — York County, population 20,381
Start on the Portland ME Window Replacement homepage for a free estimate, or call (844) 511-2320 and describe the job.
Why Portland Chooses Portland ME Window Replacement
- ✓We put your municipality's 2020 census count on the estimate and state whether Title 10, section 9724 obliges it to enforce the code or leaves the choice to the town. No other quote you get will tell you that, and it changes who is checking the work.
- ✓Openings are priced one at a time and marked repair, insert or full-frame. A sound sash with a failed cord is a two-hour repair, and inside a whole-house number that repair silently becomes a replacement you paid full price for.
- ✓We will tell you to spend the money on air sealing and insulation instead when that is the honest answer, because Efficiency Maine pays toward those and nothing toward glass. We would rather lose a job than sell you a payback that does not exist.
- ✓In towns under 4,000 residents, where nobody is required to inspect, we price an independent third-party inspector certified under Chapter 3 as an optional line. You can strike it. Most people looking at a bay or a cut foundation opening do not.
The standards behind window screens
Quality here is not a matter of opinion — it is written down. The window screens work we do in Portland follows published industry standards: NFRC sets the U-factor and SHGC ratings on every window label, and ENERGY STAR defines the efficiency thresholds by climate zone. If a contractor cannot tell you which standard a detail comes from, that is worth asking about before you sign.
Every window screens project in Portland gets the same attention, whether it is a single room or a full commercial job. We show up on schedule, keep the site clean, and stand behind the work — the estimate is free and there is no pressure.
Ready to get started? Call (844) 511-2320 for a free window screens free estimate in Portland, or request a quote and we'll get right back to you.